1384 Days: 3 Years, 9 Months, 15 Days All that matters from now and through the verdict, is doing right by Robert. We regret not knowing him while alive, but even in death he remains a role model and inspiration. There…
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Here Comes The Judge
Washington Post Profiles Judge Lynn Leibovitz Keith Alexander of the Post had a crackerjack profile of the presiding judge in the Wone trial, Lynn Leibovitz, in yesterday’s edition. Profiled in these pages this past January, Alexander draws a good picture…
Advancing The Story
The Post Delivers Two months after Robert’s murder, key pieces of the story were emerging. Three years ago last Friday, in an October 9, 2006 Washington Post article , we see a rudimentary version of the August 2nd timeline, many familiar…
Mouthpieces
A Friend is Slain in Your Home? STFU One of the more unsettling aspects of the then-suspects’, now defendants’ puzzling behavior following Robert’s murder was their complete silence on both their friend’s death and their own innocence. None of the…
The Grand Jury
First Movement Three weeks to the day after Robert’s murder, the Washington Post was leaked information about grand jury testimony that was taking place: Katherine Wone, 35, wife of Robert Wone, testified for more than an hour about “her interaction with…
Search and Seizure… and Snooze
Burying the Lede After the first wave of media coverage hit on August 4th and 5th, the next significant piece was on the 14th by Emma Schwartz of the Legal Times. And she had the goods – the search warrants for Price’s home, his office…
The Front Page
Dateline: Swann Street Legendary muckraker and irritant I.F. Stone is credited with this critique of the Washington Post: “It’s a great newspaper. You never know on what page you’ll find a front-page story.” On August 4, 2006 they got it…
It's A Date…
Two Weeks Before Robert Wone’s Murder… Three years ago this week, on or about July 19, 2006, Robert began making plans to stay the night at a friend’s house in Washington, DC. Last month Paul Duggan wrote in the…
Fit To Print
15th And Swann By Way Of 41st and 8th Our thanks to Tim Arango for his article on the media coverage of Robert’s murder. Our continued gratitude goes to Paul Duggan for his thorough investigative work and for the time…
Post Mortem
Bye Lines Only recently have the Washington Post obituaries been signed by its writers; Robert’s did not carry a by-line in August of 2006. Having read the Duggan series, the man who penned that obit, Matt Schudel, shared his thoughts. In…